Recently the Centers for Disease Control released a report revealing that the rate of infectious infections resistant to antibiotics is on the rise and the main culprits are hospitals. An estimated 2 million people in the U.S. get drug-resistant infections each year and about 23,000 die. Hospitals are a primary source of antibiotic-resistant infections because of the high use of antibiotics in hospital settings. Within hospitals, bacteria are able to develop resistance to the most common antibiotics used to treat them at high rates of speed. Similarly, part …read more